Lyndon LaRouche's Pre-9/11 Warning

Given the hysteria and fear-mongering that the Bush Administration, and its supporters are engaged in around the 9/11 anniversary, largely as a desperate pre-election ploy, it's worth noting the warning that Lyndon LaRouche issued 8 months before 9/11 about the nature of the then-incoming regime.

LaRouche focused on the nomination of John Ashcroft to be attorney general, not so much because of the particularities of the Confederate flag-loving Ashcroft, but because of what his nomination indicated about how the Bush regime would respond to a crisis, and the underlying crisis was, and still is, the disintegration of the global financial system, similar, though different in magnitude, to what was happening in the 1930's.

Here is what LaRouche said, on Jan. 3, 2001:
"First of all, when Bush put Ashcroft in, as a nomination for the Justice Department, he made it clear, the Ku Klux Klan was riding again. That's clear. Now, maybe Bush didn't know what he was doing. But somebody in the Bush team did. And a lot of them had the voice to say something about it. Ashcroft was an insult to the Congress. If the Democrats in the Congress, capitulate to the Ashcroft nomination, the Congress is finished..."

Read the rest of the story here: Which way to the future?